Community Forest

November 14, 2022

We choose to maintain this status as a promise to our clients to deliver the highest quality service, as a promise to our employees to provide the safest possible work environment, as a promise to our community to learn and grow in the field of arboriculture and to always seek the best and most up-to-date information, practices and training.

January 18, 2022

One of the best ways to maximize your overall investment in your landscape is to care for your trees when they are young. Developing a plan with an arborist when the trees are small can tremendously improve the health and longevity of the trees over their lifespan. This foresight can prevent unnecessary and costly removals and help future growth.

May 26, 2021

Finding an acceptable level of risk is a personal choice that only you as a homeowner can make. Our hope is that we can find a balance between maintaining our current canopy and that level of risk that you personally feel comfortable with. Finding an arborist that you trust that can make recommendations to help mitigate your risk and find ways to keep your trees healthy is the best way to achieve this balance.

March 4, 2021

In the forest, trees exist and flourish without any human intervention or controls. Dead limbs fall off eventually, views are not obstructed so limbs are not selectively removed and poor branch structure is not a concern for nature. However, in the urban environment our structures, playscapes and lawns impact our trees and our trees impact them.

January 26, 2021

Your trees offer more than just shade. Caring for your living investment is essential to ensuring the aesthetic of your property, maintaining the value of your landscape, and protecting our urban canopy. Caring for your trees is your responsibility, but caring for our urban canopy is a community-wide obligation or duty.

November 17, 2020

One of the ways we strive to Be Better is to immerse ourselves in our community. We go beyond providing a valuable service with your trees by investing time and resources volunteering at community events. We believe that time spent educating and providing demonstrations of our work fosters a better understanding of the importance of tree care, the role healthy trees play in our community and perhaps inspire the youth to consider a fulfilling career in arboriculture.

March 3, 2020

Now is the best time to plant a tree. But if you’re going to plant a tree today, make sure you do it right. Here are some best planting practices:

February 24, 2020

NUF recently had the opportunity to be involved in a unique project in the North Georgia mountains. Learn more about our efforts to provide pruning and plant health care for the orchard on the campus of the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School as well as provide an educational opportunity for students and teachers.

May 3, 2019

New Urban Forestry recently conducted tree inventories for two very different purposes. The first was for the zip line route at the Sandbar, a local business that provides a zip line tour across the Broad River. We also spent a great day in the Historic Downtown area of Greensboro, GA recording trees along the streetscape.

October 31, 2018

Our arborists occasionally come across bees that have made their home in a tree that needs to be removed. Last week we successfully relocated a hive to a new home at Tallassee Highlands Apiary.

August 17, 2018

New Urban Forestry had the enormous honor of caring for the trees at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change this week. We sent our entire tree team to the property for the day. Read more about this special project.

June 27, 2018

NUF recently helped install an Owl box at the Boulevard Woods community park. Make sure to look up next time you take a stroll around the park.